Word: failed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oath : "I swear to observe and to have observed the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws emanating therefrom. I will loyally and patriotically fulfill the office of Provisional President of the republic, looking only and always to the welfare of the country. If I fail to do so, may the nation hold me responsible...
...Dull would I be in feeling did I fail to express gratitude for this generous manifestation of friendship...
...ready for death. As U. S. Proustian Edmund Wilson epitomizes, "in the long last sentence of the book the word 'Time' begins to sound, and it closes the symphony as it began it'': "If, at least, there were granted me time enough to complete my work, I would not fail to stamp it with the seal of that Time the understanding of which was this day so forcibly impressing itself upon me, and I would therein describe men?even should that give them the semblance of monstrous creatures?as occupying in Time a place far more considerable than...
...left-handed Smith Reynolds happen to shoot himself in the right "temple? If he was standing, as his wife said, how did the bullet which traveled downward through his head manage to cut a hole through the porch screen six feet above the floor? Why did detectives fail to find the .32 calibre Mauser, until Walker returned hours later from the hospital? What was the meaning of bloody fingerprints on the door jamb, of a bloody towel in the bathroom, of Mrs. Reynolds' slippers and sweater in Walker's room, of their behavior at the hospital...
...York N. Y. C. and Lackawanna, in the same system, would compete against Erie and Lehigh Valley in another system. Four-way system competition would be preserved at such important centres as Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Only the B. & O. would fail to get into Norfolk. No important city which now has competition between two railroads would get less under the merger plan...